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August 8, 2014

EGG INDUSTRY: Producers Working Toward 500 Eggs at 100 Weeks of Age

A prediction made by a geneticist that by 2050, laying hens would routinely lay 500 saleable eggs by 100 weeks of age with a feed conversion around 1.1 without being molted became one of the discussion points recently at Alltech’s International Poultry Forum. The audience was asked to participate in what was termed a “Yale-style debate”.